From Nigel Walley - Many of you will know that I am a local of many years. I am Chiswick born and bred and have been running a digital media consultancy just off the High Road for ages. We have now launched a new company called Chimni and I wanted to explain to friends locally why I will be talking about it a lot in the local press and on social media.
Chimni is a tech start-up and we like to...

We are very excited to announce that Chimni has been shortlisted for an award run by Estates Gazette. The inaugural EG 'TechTalk Academy' has been seeking entrants to pitch their proptech businesses to a panel of high-calibre judges for the chance to win up to £150,000 of investment from Pi Labs, one of the pre-eminent global venture capital firms specialising in early stage proptech investment....

Chimni's West London Trial Adds A Minecraft Project To The Fun!
'Building Chiswick In Minecraft' - As part of our Chiswick, West London trial of Chimni, we have been working closely with local Residents Groups and their web sites to help them engage with residents through new digital media. We are also supporting them in projects that help them engage with young people. Our primary project in...

In 2015 Chimni were part of the founding group of companies of the BIM4Housing working party. That year we held workshops and meetings with a wide variety of players in the new housing industry to evaluate the challenges we faced. The overall finding was that the house building community is having numerous difficulties with the adoption of BIM. Our new blog here outlines our...

Chimni Founder Nigel Walley made the most of his trip to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, turning into an ace reporter to provide a property tech summary for the February edition of Showhouse Magazine. As he explains in the article, a trip to the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas has become part of the yearly calendar for anyone working in new technology. But, while it is...

“Its time for the housebuilders to work with the proptech industry around new data and services”
At CES in Las Vegas, London based property-tech start-up Chimni has called for the UK’s housebuilding community to work closer with the ‘property tech’ and Smart Home industries on data and analysis standards.

Cardiff University School of Journalism has written up the 'House History' project launched by one of the residents groups trialling the Chimni Community Web Template - Bedford Park Residents Association (BPRA) in West London. The project is helping local community members to research their own ‘house histories’ and providing chimni logs to capture the information. The the CUSJ 'Centre for...

Chimni Project Lead - Nigel Walley - presented the Chimni concept at the New London Architecture breakfast session 'Smart Thinking For London's Homes'. The talk focussed on how smart technologies will change London’s homes; how can technology make homes in the capital more efficient in terms of their design, their management, performance and use, and how they are planned for?
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A new residents association - the Glebe Estate in Chiswick, London - has joined the Chimni Residents's Association trial programme. Its new web site - www.glebeW4.org.ukk - is the latest to use the Chimni Residents template that is one of the core distribution vehicles for the wider Chimni initiative.
Note On The Residents' Association Template Trial
The Chimni Residents' Associatoin Template is...

Chimni has joined the Government's BIM4Housing Initiative intended to help the housebuilding industry in the UK adopt new Building Information Management techniques*. BIM4Housing is a cross-industry group open to all organisations involved in the design, construction, management and delivery of housing, both private and affordable. Membership of BIM4Housing is reflective of the sector, involving...

Bedford Park was the first 'garden suburb' and it is impossible to follow any history of British house building or UK architecture in general without stumbling across references to it. Sir John Betjeman, who founded the Victorian Society, called Bedford Park “the most significant suburb built in the last century.” Having redefined how we were to live in suburbs in the 19th and 20th century,...